Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
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SharePoint Server 2010, like its predecessors, includes indexing and search capabilities. But what doesn’t come out of the box is the ability to index and search for PDF documents. PDF is a format owned by Adobe, not Microsoft. If you want to be able to find Adobe PDF documents, or have the PDF icon appear when viewing PDF files in a SharePoint document library (see image above), you will need to set it up for yourself. This post describes how to.
Read more »Here are five simple tips to help improve the quality of search results when using SharePoint Server 2007 or Search Server 2008 (they share identical indexing and search features)
When you create a site collection using the Collaboration Portal template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you get an extra web part not available in any of the other templates. It’s called ‘I need to…’ and displays a list of options, starting with ‘Set up MySite’. It starts life on the home page of the top-level site in the site collection…
Read more »You’re in the UK, your server knows it’s in the UK, yet all the dates in SharePoint are listing in the US format of month/day/year. SharePoint ignores the regional settings of the server and watches the time in its own little world. To change, go to the top level site in the site collection, click [...]
Read more »*** This post was originally published on the Joining Dots blog in November 2007 *** I’ve just spent more time than I care to admit trying to kick a SharePoint server to life. The installation completed without a problem. Same too for the configuration wizard. But when it came to actually running SharePoint, the following [...]
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